Tuesday, June 5, 2012

i've come to think of the spring of 2012 as The Days of High Exuberance... at first i thought High Birdness, but wait, what about High Flowerness and High Butterflyness, and, and...?!!

i've seen so, so many flowers and taken pics of so, so many flowers. i chose this one to show here because well, look, it's growing in rocks! if that's not exuberance i don't know what is!

every year i see a lot of shooting stars, and this year was no different. i'm showing this pic so that you can see what they look like if they don't grow where you live... they're pinkish purple...

until this year... when i saw two white ones. if i had stumbled on the white buffalo him/herself i couldn't have been more surprised and delighted. i was in a state of deep amazement for hours...

to add to the wondrousness of this, tammie lee of spirithelpers also saw her first white shooting star (in montana - i'm in northeastern california) this spring. you must go here to see how beautiful they are. as beautiful as the ones here were, the ones that tammie saw are even more mind blowing.

i've drawn on a lot of sticks

and rusty stuff.

i now know that the color doesn't last much more than a year, and you really can't go back and add more color (on top of the old) because the surface is too waxy - the color from the prismacolor pencils fades, but the wax remains.

Your blog always brings me such sweet joy, especially the past few weeks when I have not been able to feed my creative spirit...in sustaining ways...the kind of stuff that lives in the heart....the current creative project is about celebrating and sharing it with others...and makes me happy..but it's not quite the same...I adore your leaving behind all these colored sticks and stones and lovelies and your photos...such gentle reminders of where our hearts truly reside.

What a rejoicing post! Thank you for showing us the beautiful white shooting star. She is beautiful! She makes a wonderful flower essence - "Shooting Star teaches souls that the Earth is the right place to humanize one's cosmic consciousness, for it is the place to learn about heart-impelled love." from The Flower Essence Repertory, Pg 377, by Patricia Kaminski and Richard Katz

ahh its a free Lynne bird lol the shooting star is not one we see downunder but then im told that the wild flowers of western australia are amazing and varied so who knows .. i love how u celebrate the flora and fauna ...

Oh Lynne..... another amazing post. Gosh you make my day! Free Bird is perfect. Love it in every way. And those flowers. Glorious. I love how you leave your mark on found items. Turning trash into treasure. Thank you for sharing such beauty. xoxo

I love your free bird, it really captures the essence of the name perfectly and I love your idea of drawing on the roots and sticks, it adds such a rustic feel into your garden I may just go out and do the same. Thank you for sharing your paintings they always inspire me I bought my own set of nice watercolors to hopefully do some creating of my own.

A white shooting star - now that is an exuberance! WE have the pink/pale magenta variety here by the muskeg-full, but white? Not that I have ever observed. Love the sharp scent they bear. And I love you little bird! -sus

i hope you read this - i don't know how else to contact you! thank you for your kind words and for telling me about da vinci paints... i haven't tried them, but someone else just told me about da vinci gouache so i will have to check them both out.

also, i replied to your comment in the 'teabag' post - that was when i first checked out da vinci watercolors!

Breathtakingly gorgeous flowers you have in your part of the world, my dear Lynne Hoppe! It's funny that you mention your *High Exuberance*, because I'm feeling it too. Although I'm trying to slow down and *notice* things more, I feel like I've got more than a a wee bit of ADD these days. There is soooo much to see, even here in the dreaded 'burbs of the Midwest!:o) I love your free bird. Makes me wish I could fly. . .xoxoxo

Hey Lynne, the shooting stars look amazing.....at first I thought you meant stars in the night sky and wondered how on earth you could be so quick to snap a pic of them! Then I scrolled down a bit more and saw the flowers....all has been revealed.

I love your drawings on sticks and the rusty can it's just beautiful ....I might just have to give that one a go.

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to answer questions about technique or materials... please feel free to ask here or email me. i work primarily in books using watercolors, gouache, pastels (soft and oil), graphite and colored pencils. i also love to work on muslin and plaster cloth, and when i'm out walking i draw on sticks, stones, and rusty stuff...